Broaching the subject with Everett... to spice things up more often?

For Dorothy, this was a mountain too steep to climb.

How on earth was she supposed to bring it up?

"I should just drop it. What if Everett... Maybe he's just too worn out from work, and that's why he's not in the mood?"

Wouldn't she just be wounding his pride then?

Karen smacked her lips, freshly changed and walking out with Dorothy, chatting away.

"So, what you're saying is, Everett's not up for it in the bedroom anymore?!"

Just as Dorothy was about to respond, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Jeffrey and Everett standing side by side not too far away.

All four of them fell silent, the awkwardness thick enough to cut with a knife.

At that moment....

Dorothy wondered if Everett had caught that last part...

into laughter, bending over in stitches, almost rolling on the

Your wife is here

Great, Dorothy's heart

smile beaming as she teased Everett, "Yeah, Dorothy was just telling me how things have been... sparse. She's too shy to bring it

up, his gaze locked

that moment, Dorothy wished she could just

with

I didn't

how on earth their conversation had steered in this direction, but then she realized... she was

"What exactly?"

closer, wrapping an arm

with urgency,

chuckled softly, tucking a stray hair behind her ear before whispering, "You know, you could've just told me directly. Venting to Karen doesn't

"I wasn't venting!"

for spilling the beans. You did say his frequency was lacking! Forgot that? You even mentioned being too shy to talk to him

knew she was in

...

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